Today its time for the Hallowe'enBlog Hop organized by Jo. The ones who have joined this blog hop has to show a Halloween stitched piece, a new or a favorite old one. Each participant has to write down a letter and you can collect all the letters and then try to find out what the mystery phrase is.

I choose for a favorite old Halloween stitched piece because I still can't do any cross stitch with my tennis elbow. Its Halloween Hornbook from Plum Street Samplers.

And today its also Brumelda's birthday. She doesn't know how old she is, but she knows that when you have your birthday you get a present :-) But first we had to sing for the birthday girl, who sat already by her chocolate cupcake !

Many of you ask about Brumelda, how she was doing because she hasn't been around much lately. I can tell you she's very busy with everything behind the scenes. She regularly goes out with her friends and often she helps me with the fabric pieces. The last few days she helps some more because she knows its almost her birthday (october 31) and now she tries to find out what her present will be. I have told her that I will say nothing and that she has to wait till wednesday.

You should think that those paper piecing blocks are fast to make, but that isn't the case. I find it a lot of work because many blocks have tiny pieces. The Halloween paper Pieced blog hop is organize by Whims and Fancies.

Susan gave us on day 18 a Broken Tombstone to make. There was nothing writing on the tombstone, so I made something up myself and stitched it on the tombstone ... poor Mr. Bone, may he rest in peace.

The "Something Wicked This Way Comes" blog hop is now 22 days underway and one after the other fun halloween block appears. Yesterday I made the block of october 19 from Diane. She designed a block with the words Trick or Treat and this block contains a lot of small pieces and I mean realy small pieces. But once finished it is a beautiful block !

On november 2 (so still 12 nights sleep) I will be 50 year and with a birthday comes presents. To get but certainly also to give away, so its time for a Give Away.

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Yesterday I made another block for the halloween quilt. Deborah gave us on october 7 The bride of Frankenstein. Isn't she a beauty :-) The Halloween paper Pieced blog hop is organize by Whims and Fancies.

Last weekend I entered a give away from a Dutch quiltshop. The owner had her birthday. On Tuesday I got an email that was saying that I was one of the lucky winners. And yesterday I got a big envelop full of beautiful fabrics, they even included a five corner template.

On several blogs began on October 1 the "Something Wicked This Way Comes" blog hop and each day there is a new halloween paper piecing block on different blogs that you can download. As many of you know I'm totally crazy about halloween, so these blocks are so much fun.

The block Trick or Treat Sue that Jennifer posted on her blog on October 16 stole immediately my heart, so I had to make it straight away yesterday evening. First I made the larges pieces. I make paper piecing blocks with freezer paper, as you can see HERE.

And for the one who loves halloween ... on oct. 31 there's a Hallowe'en Blog hop. Click HERE if you want to join in the fun. You can read on that page what you have to do. I have already joined and luckily we don't have to show a new cross stitch work but we can may show something we made a time ago. Thats a good thing because I still can't do any cross stitching because of my tennis elbow ... I can tell you ... I miss it !

Now that sewing the quiltblocks on the machine keeps getting better and better, I can make another with blocks that I had finished a long time ago. The blocks are from the Autumn wedding ring, make after a pattern called Juliet's wedding ring from Ellie's Quiltplace.

First I made the sashings with the little cornerblocks and put them between the larger blocks. the I got add the borders. So now I have another one ready, the handquilting I do when my arm is better. If you love the pattern, watch out for my blog around october 20 because I will have a give away then with lots more prices.

Now I can manage to stitch the crossroads, I had finished the top of the Scrappy stars in no time. I also got some replies from readers who thought I didn't sew the stars in the right way. On this picture you can see what they thought was not good ...

I have had to laugh because this was precisely the intention of those stars. They aren't suppossed to fit.That also can not, because as you have stitched them, you cut the blocks in half and you don't have no extra seam.

I also was watching for a nice pattern of a christmas quilt with gingerbreads, because this is one of my favorite christmas themes. I found one by Michelle Ridgway from Austalia and orderd it. It was delivered in 2 weeks, so I can start.

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Be kind to Mother Nature

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."~Albert Einstein

The beauty of nature

Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly! ~Author Unknown

A fairy ...

When you feel a little breeze, or notice a tickle, or need to sneeze or find your things are rearranged or something seems a little strange, look very closely and you might see sparkly dust, or a buzzing bee: Behold! a fairy with gossamer wings has come to show you wonderful things.